What happens when a male stripper performing at a Miami Beach bachelorette party is accidentally killed and the whole thing played for sick laughs? In a perfect world, Peter Berg, writer-director of the very good Very Bad Things, steps in and sues the pants off Sony Pictures and Lucia Aniello for shamelessly ripping off his raunchy 1998 comedy. Scarlett Johannson is the bride-to-be, a political candidate who no one likes, with a hairstyle reminiscent of a certain two-time presidential loser. Factor in the obvious role-reversal, add a dash of Weekend at Bernie’s and a pinch of Bridesmaids, and what remains is a boldfaced tracing job for which Aniello receives original script credit. Other than concealing more discontinued subplots than AT&T has dropped calls, the trailer pretty much tells all. Skip the movie. With: Zoë Kravitz, Kate McKinnon, and the insufferable Jillian Bell. 2017. (2017) — Scott Marks
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